I concur! I try to remain clean and organized at home, but when I go to the gym..... Everywhere I look are

those who sweat all over everything and the cleaning bottles and rags go unused! Pet peeve..DEFINATELY!

If I leave it clean for you, why don't you do the same? Laziness?? Who knows. I have learned to wipe down before I use the equipment only due to this fact alone. Signs, attendants, bottles and rags. None of them can take the place of common courtesy or make you do something you really don't care to. I even wipe down grips and every part that my hands or body touch. It is just me, and as long as my son grows up to take after my example, he will be fine. I cannot change others.

Between the Universal Gym at HS, the weight room in college and several commercial gyms over the last 40 years or so, I've observed the facination with the spray bottle and towels for wiping up sweat has just come in the last 15-20 years. Before that nobody wiped anything off at the gym. Not sure we're any healthier as a population now.

That being said, I'm real careful using the benches in the locker room at my gym. The got some that have a nice fabric cover on them and I see way too many people sitting on them bare assed. Little too much for me.

You would, too, if you got sick alot! No, it has nothing to do with taking your vitamins and doctors can't find anything wrong with my immune system. I think, in the least, it is common courtesy. People leave unflushed toilets in public urinals too. That ok?Originally Posted by moldyjello:

Germs are everywhere. People need to get over their germ phobias. A little exposure helps your immune system.

You know why I don't wash my hands in public restrooms?

Because the sinks, faucets, and paper towel holders have more freaking germs on them than my body. Everything in a public restroom is disgusting. I touch as little as I have to and get the heck out of there as soon as I can.

Use hand sanitizer every once in a while and you will be fine.

If you are afraid of people who don't wash their hands in public restrooms or wipe down gym equipment... you would never leave your home once you got a wakeup call on what kinds of things or most infected with bacteria.

The microbes that exist on your cell phone is probably 50 times that of what is on a gym bench.

Bunch of crybabies. Betcha you all get surprised when you see news reports about antibiotic resistant germs popping up. That's what so-called "anti-bacterial" soap will get ya.

The two dirtiest places in a public restroom are the floors and the sinks. The two cleanest places are the door handle and the toilet seat. So, be healthy, just do your business and get out.

You are entitled to your opinion, but "crybabies"? No. Getting sick is one thing, but laying in a pool of someone else's sweat, mess, whatever you want to call it is not cool with me. If you don't mind, then go ahead. I think it is just lack of courtesy. If you get sick, you get sick. I just don't want to walk into a public place and have to deal with it when all someone has to do is just wipe up sweat or flush a toilet. Don't find anything "cry-baby"-ish about that.

Because the sinks, faucets, and paper towel holders have more freaking germs on them than my body.

You must suck at washing your hands then. Turn the fecal faucet on, press the fecal button for soap, wash hands with soap until sanitized and clean. Use paper towel (if you have to touch fecal lever to get paper towel, then plan ahead) to turn off fecal faucet with towel and use same towel to grab fecal door handle. No one wants to shake hands with your dick.

As soon as I am about to leave the gym, I wash my hands, and use elbows on the way out the door. As soon as I get home, I wash my hands again. I'm not germproof by any stretch, but think I cut down my odds on catching something.

I don't care if anyone wipes down the machine or not unless they just stepped off a cardio machine. Some people have gross habits of wiping down machines with the same towel, they have been wiping their forehead with etc. so I never think that anything there is clean.

Ewewewew! This is one of the reasons I could never belong to a gym. I used a hotel's gym this past summer just for the treadmill and there were puddles over by the weightlifting stuff. People are gross!

Even if you thought the equipment was sparkly clean, wouldn't you HAVE to wipe it down anyway?

life is too short to get twisted up over such silliness

Sparkly clean...? No, probably not.

Life could get longer if, say, hospitals did a better job at wiping down surfaces and instruments, but you know, it's silly.

Doubtful. We live in a world of germs. Always have, always will. What's different between now and when we came up? Anti bacterial soaps and anal parents which means kids have NO antibodies to fight anything. Hence the rise of supposed gluten alleries, peanut allergies et al. Check out the CDC's take on it sometime. We are over protected.

B) Anything you need to worry about is not going to be defeated by 5 seconds of wiping a porous surface with a paper towel, even if they provide a disinfectant spray.

+1

Washing your hands regularly or using hand sanitizer (my choice after using the bathroom) will certainly make a huge impact on preventing disease. But really all of our cell phones carry a huge volume of microbes and we hold those things to our face every day. Door knobs are probably the worst things to be worried about.

I've worked in a hospital, it has made me far more aware of pathogens, but also far less afraid at the same time. Because the usual things that people think of, like using the restroom, are really no where near the nastiest places we put our hands during the day.

I don't really care if I catch a cold from the gym one time. I'm more concerned about things like MRSA. Which I would have gotten even if they wiped the machine down with probably a germ infested towel.

The places that germs are most feared; bathrooms, gyms, locker rooms etc. usually get cleaned very often. Those things we aren't afraid of rarely get cleaned and then become the germ emporiums.

I'm not afraid of gyms because of germs, I think all that is just plain silly.

I really hope no one who says they would ever go to a gym because of germs has kids haha.

Let's just say that if the clean peep freaks at the gym worked at a hospital, there would be little cross contamination. I'd trust OCD mysophobics to clean my ER room any day over a dude that makes $10/hr and thinks nothing of eating hot wings while taking a ****.

Ewewewew! This is one of the reasons I could never belong to a gym. I used a hotel's gym this past summer just for the treadmill and there were puddles over by the weightlifting stuff. People are gross!

So what do you think of the condition of the number pad and stylus of the credit card machine at the pharmacy counter?

Ewewewew! This is one of the reasons I could never belong to a gym. I used a hotel's gym this past summer just for the treadmill and there were puddles over by the weightlifting stuff. People are gross!

So what do you think of the condition of the number pad and stylus of the credit card machine at the pharmacy counter?

Tell me about it as that does gross me out. I bring my own for the other cases.

Ewewewew! This is one of the reasons I could never belong to a gym. I used a hotel's gym this past summer just for the treadmill and there were puddles over by the weightlifting stuff. People are gross!

So what do you think of the condition of the number pad and stylus of the credit card machine at the pharmacy counter?

Anti bacterial soaps and anal parents which means kids have NO antibodies to fight anything. Hence the rise of supposed gluten alleries, peanut allergies et al. Check out the CDC's take on it sometime. We are over protected.

I'm not convinced this is accurate. I used to think so.... But I've developed a gluten intolerance in the last few years along with 2 pages of allergies. To things I've been constantly exposed to for my entire life. Hay, straw, trees, cats, dogs, dust mites, etc.

I'm only a recently converted germaphobe. I grew up in a borderline hoarder type environment. I think it's a cause of where I live. As soon as I moved to Delaware I began having allergy issues within a couple years.

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